This stinks! Must be GAY!

[Casey]

Well I use the word gay or fag in a derogatory term, just insulting someone not because they're gay. So yeah, flame me, I dont care.

[DMKA]

So yeah, flame me, I dont care.

You want to be flaming?

*flames you*

[Giga Guess]

It irritates me greatly. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive, maybe I need to take a chill pill, but ultimately it boils down to this for me. "Gay" in this sense is supposed to be synonymous with homosexual, and using it as a derogatory term becomes a hit on the gay community. Maybe not a huge blow, but still an attack. Or not. Like I said, I have a history of being a little touchy about stuff like this...

[Hawkeye]

It doesnt really bother me, depending what its context is. However, if it discriminates people, then i do have a problem with it.

[Erdrick Holmes]

I used to not be bothered by it, now it irritates me, especialy because one of best friends is bisexual.

[Faris]

I Agree, I absolutely (sp?) hate it when people just randomly say that you're a lezbian or a gay person. Somone that I had only known for a few days, and then she tells someone that i'm homosexual. I did nothing to show that! I got a pathetic reason to be called that . I'm just a nice person and I still get all this BS dumped on me.

When people say "This is gay", It sounds really weird, I never understand what they mean by that or I will sometimes get the wrong message. I don't use the term so I don't get it.
This is how I see it:
Gay means: Happy.

It really doesn't bother me, except when I hear little kids saying it...that just annoys me.

They seem to be less innocent then when I was a child. I hear my 9 and 7 year old cousins swearing when their Mother isn't around. It sickens me sometimes

[Spritz]

I find it really annoying. To me it just seems very ignorant when someone uses it as a degoritory term.

I hear my 9 and 7 year old cousins swearing when their Mother isn't around. It sickens me sometimes

Same. At the risk of sounding very elderly; Kids don't have any manners these days.

[Itsunari 2000]

It really annoys me as well ... just like people referring to different ethnicities with the use of derogatory words like the " n " word , " Japs "," Crouts" etc. It's ignorant and disgusting and needs to be stamped out.

[Linus]

Gay may not mean "stupid" or "dumb," but it doesn't mean homosexual either.

Why aren't you mad that this word isn't used properly, which would be to describe happy people, or people with sunny dispositions?

I'm mad that the word gay is used to describe homosexuals, because that's not what it means!

EGG.

Edit: Due to this thread title, I will now associate bad smells with the word "gay."

[DMKA]

[Shlup]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm offended when the word "bitch" is used as an insult. Its a big hit on the females of the dog species, when they're usually so sweet and loveable. It didn't used to bother me, but now one of my best friends is a bitch which has somehow wedged a stick up my butt.

I just think its innapropriate to use the word for something other than its meaning. A bitch is a nice female dog, not a mean female human.

Gay may not mean "stupid" or "dumb," but it doesn't mean homosexual either.

Why aren't you mad that this word isn't used properly, which would be to describe happy people, or people with sunny dispositions?

I'm mad that the word gay is used to describe homosexuals, because that's not what it means!

EGG.

*tempted to let Linus make a thread*

[Psychotic]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm offended when the word "bitch" is used as an insult. Its a big hit on the females of the dog species, when they're usually so sweet and loveable. It didn't used to bother me, but now one of my best friends is a bitch which has somehow wedged a stick up my butt.

In English Language the other day we were doing words like this, and apparently femminists have chanced bitch to be an acronym: Babe in total control of herself. So every time you call someone a bitch, that is what they'll claim you are saying.

Of course, it doesn't matter what those headcases (Everyone I know hates femminists, especially girls) say it means, people say it to demean females no matter what weird way they try to change the meaning of the word.

[Teek]

I sort of don't dwell on it. It just reeks of ignorance more than evil.

[DMKA]

Of course, it doesn't matter what those headcases (Everyone I know hates femminists, especially girls) say it means, people say it to demean females no matter what weird way they try to change the meaning of the word.

Once I was walking around campus when I lived in the dorms and there were these chicks handing out flyers and saying to everyone:"fight sexism! Support femenism!"

For some reason, this didn't sound right to me.

[m4tt]

Once I was walking around campus when I lived in the dorms and there were these chicks handing out flyers and saying to everyone:"fight sexism! Support femenism!"

For some reason, this didn't sound right to me.

Yeah.. that doesn't make much sense.